Colette Mazzucelli

Adjunct Professor

About

Professor Colette Mazzucelli, MALD, EdM, PhD teaches courses in conflict resolution, radicalization & religion, international relations in the post-Cold War era, ethnic conflict, and Europe in the 21st Century. She is a recipient of the NYU SPS Excellence in Teaching Award 2013. Dr. Mazzucelli has participated in the CFR-Lumina Foundation Global Literacy Advisory Group. At the invitation of His Highness Crown Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil and Spencer Lord, she is a member of the Advisory Board, Ekta Transglobal Foundation Inc. Her diplomatic experience includes hosting the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) to welcome Visiting Delegations to New York University in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Mazzucelli is a member of the Global Diplomacy Lab and an alumna of the Brandeis University Summer Institute for Israel Studies. In 2016, she was named an Ambassador of Peace in recognition of her service as an educator with over 20 years experience in technology-mediated learning. At LIU Global, Dr. Mazzucelli is responsible to teach hybrid courses and mentor thesis research by undergraduates engaged in field work on 6 continents. For Pioneer Academics, she mentors talented high-school juniors and seniors in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East who aspire to pursue their undergraduate education at leading US and Canadian institutions of higher learning. A Fulbright Scholar to France (1991) and Germany (2007), Professor Mazzucelli is the author and/or editor of 5 books on European integration and transatlantic security as well as a contributor to numerous peer-reviewed journals. Her courses have been profiled by the Council on Foreign Relations in Foreign Affairs as well as the CFR Educators Bulletin. As the recipient of 11 fellowships in 7 countries, Dr. Mazzucelli's biography appears in Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2016. She was invited to participate in Canada’s first training program on the prevention of mass atrocities and genocide by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University. Ambassador Mazzucelli has spoken on panels commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Élysée Treaty of Friendship between France and Germany (1963-2013) by the French and German Embassies in Washington and the French and German Consulates General in Boston. During 2000-03, she was responsible to direct and teach the first technology-mediated seminar in the history of the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) Paris analyzing conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Ambassador Mazzucelli is a former Director, International Programs, Budapest Institute for Graduate International and Diplomatic Studies, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, 1995-97. As a participant in the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program for Future American Leaders, she assisted with the ratification of the Treaty on European Union ("Maastricht") in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1992-93.

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Current Projects

The intent of my research in a community of scholars and practitioners is to grapple with specific issues that define the state of the field in data collection, including prominent uses of satellite imagery analysis, forensic investigation techniques, and mobile telephony applications, to document human rights abuses in remote areas, as evidenced in the work of Amnesty International and Physicians for Human Rights. Ethical considerations orient these discussions. The dilemma of how to use technology effectively, while not harming the vulnerable, constitutes one of the most salient issues. Can technology, a two-edged sword in its applications, promote the objective of “never again” in mass atrocities response? The current research highlights the ways in which this question and others identified lead to reflections concerning an emerging pedagogy of mass atrocities research and response. In the learning and teaching this pedagogy inspires, it may be possible to nurture a movement that is transformative, rather than incremental, in its challenge to the status quo characterized by what Raymond and Sandvik cite in the literature as “technological utopianism.”